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Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and the biases that shape our choices.

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Arts & Entertainment

Tony Auth on Vietnam’s role in his career as a political cartoonist

From the Tony Auth archives an excerpt from the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist's 2005 interview with the Library of Congress.

8 years ago

The author is shown, second from the left, following his release from jail in July with other members of protest group Bowling Green Patriots. (Courtesy of Samuel S. Flint)
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Lifestyle

Taking it to the streets, then and now

This story is part of a WHYY series examining how the United States, four decades later, is st ...

8 years ago

 A picture of Huey 823. The Liberty War Birds are restoring the UH-1H for flight (Shirley Min/WHYY)
Science

The Huey and the Vietnam veteran

The sound of the iconic Huey helicopter is unmistakable to a Vietnam veteran.

8 years ago

President Lyndon Johnson walks from his office in the White House to a studio in the Executive Mansion to address the nation on the bombing of North Vietnam, Jan. 31, 1966. (AP Photo, file)
National Interest
Lifestyle

Vietnam: The war that was waged in my head

In the winter of my 13th year, I made a momentous life decision. I marched into my parents’ suburban kitchen and declared that when ...

8 years ago

Robert McNamara, right, defense secretary under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, is shown in 2001 at a forum at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
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Community

Who fights our wars? Other people’s children

A volunteer-only army outsources foreign wars to the poor and working class — one of the worst legacies of Vietnam, which was also fought mostly by less-privileged Americans.

8 years ago

Lifestyle

Five ways Hollywood looks at Vietnam [video]

As Ken Burns turns his documentary lens on Vietnam, WHYY’s Patrick Stoner examines five ways Hollywood has explored the war. ...

8 years ago

Community

The Philly Vietnam wall still speaks to and for many [video]

This story is part of a WHYY series examining how the United States, four decades later, is ...

8 years ago

Craters formed by bombs dropped during the Vietnam War
Community

Video artist traces the scars of war from South Philly to Vietnam

A Philadelphia video artist born in Vietnam is shooting a documentary chronicling his personal connection to scars the war left on the landscape.

8 years ago

 In this Saturday, April 1, 1972, file photo, Daniel Ellsberg, chief defendant in the Pentagon Papers case, addresses a crowd at the State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. following an anti-war parade that ended at the Capitol. (AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy)
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Lifestyle

Vietnam was my first war

This story is part of a WHYY series examining how the United States, four decades later, is st ...

8 years ago

 In a photo taken Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017, Frank Costello, organizer of the Semper Five charity run in Seaside Heights, N.J., poses for The Associated Press at the site of the start and finish lines for the race. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Community

Hundreds run in military charity race marred last year by bombing

Hundreds of runners came out Saturday for a Marine Corps charity race on the New Jersey shore, a race run without incident one year after ...

8 years ago

Arts & Entertainment

To mark 30th year of Philly’s Vietnam memorial, vets and families salute missing soldiers

Veterans and family members honored prisoners of war or those missing in action to mark the 30th anniversary of the Philadelphia’s ...

8 years ago

 In this Jan. 1, 1966, file photo, a paratrooper of the 173rd U.S. Airborne brigade crouches with women and children in a muddy canal as intense Viet Cong sniper fire temporarily pins down his unit near Bao Trai in Vietnam. (AP Photo/Horst Faas, file)
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Politics & Policy

‘It’s hard to take pride in a war that, by any definition, we lost’

“The Vietnam War” heaps ineptness upon ignorance upon immorality by policymakers and the military brass — all gui ...

8 years ago

 U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Matthew Leinbach, right, from the New Jersey Air National Guard's 108th Security Forces Squadron, instructs airmen on squad tactics and danger crossing techniques at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 23, 2017. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)
Down the Shore
Courts & Law

N.J. National Guard to provide security during Irma relief efforts in U.S. Virgin Islands

More than two dozen New Jersey National Guard troops are heading to the U.S. Virgin Islands to assist with security efforts during the in ...

8 years ago

 Army National Guard photo.
Down the Shore
Community

N.J. National Guard personnel assist South Carolina amid historic tidal flooding

UPDATE: New Jersey Department Of Military and Veterans Affairs Public Affairs Officer Kryn P. Westhoven tells us that So ...

8 years ago

Politics & Policy

‘Blood smells the same,’ but for Vietnam nurses, the war never ends

It’s been more than 40 years since the Vietnam War ended. But for the combat nurses who served there, the de ...

8 years ago

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